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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 240 km NNE of Tobelo, Indonesia


Earthquake location 3.718S, 128.8853WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 240 km NNE of Tobelo, Indonesia (149 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us20004x4e. Ids that are associated to the event: us20004x4e. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.07 km (4 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 128.8853 East, latitude 3.718 North, depth = 7.07 km. The temblor was detected at 03:54:26 / 3:54 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 01/02/16 / 2016-02-01 18:54:26 / February 1, 2016 @ 6:54 pm UTC/GMT.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 240 km NNE of Tobelo, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.8853° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 3.718° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.07 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 240km NNE of Tobelo, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-02-01 18:54:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-02 17:07:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 326 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.296 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 150 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20004x4e Id of event.
Event Code 20004x4e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004x4e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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